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#219 — The Power of Compassion

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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How Did You Come to Be the Jim Dody Who's Now Speaking With Me?

i'm a professor of nero surgery at stanford, probably more german for our conversation. i'm thea founder and director of the centre of her compassion and altruism which is part of the school of medicine. And i have really an interest actually, in what drives people to be good,. O, k, will, let's begin at the beginning. You've written a very poignant memoir into the magic shop. Covers your childhood, which really is not the usual childhood. I can only imagine as not the usual childhood for someone who who has the breadth of your life experience at this point. Your memoirs, it's almost like a fairy tale of challenges,...

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